To Err And To Be Careful
Beginning of paper
With the age old question discussing the existence of god Descartes
begins the Fourth Meditation in clear defense of his existence. Descartes
proves the existence of God through the mere fact that he, the author, has
an idea within him of the existence of a higher power that this power must
indeed ....
Middle of paper
.... that perfection for mankind is
perfect knowledge of the world; however mankind errs. Descartes attributes
this error to the fault of mankind not fully grasping our own faculties.
In his fourth meditation Descartes addresses the idea of error. To
the author error results from either one of two causes; one may err simply
because he/she has ignorance of the topic or one may err because of their
own carelessness. When dealing with ignorance Descartes suggests that this
type of error occurs whe ....
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